Barack Obama reelect’s first job: Reconnect

CHICAGO — President Barack Obama’s fledgling reelection campaign is building a volunteer network with the audacious goal of contacting every single person who voted for him in 2008, as part of a reinvented voter outreach that will be as focused on smart phones in 2012 as it was on text messages last time.

Strategists plan to customize videos and other messages for the iPhones and other mobile devices of targeted groups of voters. They also envision “virtual networks” among supporters’ friends and families, so that millions of people will feel a personal connection to the campaign.

“We’re setting ambitious organizational goals for ourselves,” David Axelrod, the spiritual architect of both the past and present campaigns, said in an interview conducted above the clatter of Manny’s cafeteria, his hometown oasis. “The idea is to use new technology to pursue the old-style grassroots campaigning.” (See: Obama '12: Same cast, different story)

Democratic officials said they recognize that Obama for America, the campaign apparatus Axelrod helped build for 2008, was a once-in-a-lifetime masterstroke that cannot be duplicated. So the president’s political machine is being reinvented with the goal of creating a different kind of magic around a sitting president who is juggling multiple crises, amid a fragile economy and an uncertain national mood. (See: History happens: Obama wins)

“Hope and change may be weathered, or tempered, by hard experience,” Axelrod said. “But I think those things are still there. People still believe strongly that we can shape the future. I think we can rekindle that sense of energy and shared commitment.”

Two years later, though, the state of the art looks archaic. A hallmark of the first Obama campaign was its sophisticated use of email and text messages for organizing and fundraising. But Obama for America made no formal effort on the infant Twitter, and Facebook was an afterthought. (See: '08 new media army takes many paths)

This time, a huge staff will specialize in various slices of social media. And plans call for much more spending on digital advertising, on the Web and on other platforms that advisers will not discuss.

“It’s additive, not a replacement,” one top adviser said. “A huge chunk of voters still listen to the local evening news.”

Obama’s brain trust says his huge potential edge is a mobilized grassroots, which is why his announcement video featured unscripted musing by supporters drawn from the campaign’s database. There’s a glimpse of the president, but he never speaks. After watching the video, supporters were encouraged to use “I’m in” Facebook tags to spread the word. (See: President Obama launches reelection campaign with video)

“We have to convince them to build this living, breathing organism themselves,” said a Washington-based official.

Obama is the most divise president we have ever had. I do not believe class warfare is the way to go.. He spends more time fighting with traditional Americans, when he needs to know that our true enemy is overseas.. I hope the liberal Elite journalists will begin to pick up on this.. Americans need a leader, lets hope we can get one in 2012..

How is Obama going to defend Obamacare? New AP poll had it plunging down to 35% approval. Obama, Nancy Pelosi, andn Harry Reid need to Apologize to the American people for ramming that through the House....

And Obama and the Democrats have also starting using Paul Ryan's proposals against the GOP, like Medicare, instead of finding ways to reduce our massive deficits.

Obama is only serious about getting HIMSELF Re-installed.................and he has our dirty dishonest MSM wolfpack press at his side.........sad.

But the guy he has to beat is Romney which is why you constantly see very anti-Romney stories coming from the Wolfpack.......and why you hear the wolfpack howling loudly at Romney.........

Here's why:

"4/13/2011

Former Gov. Mitt Romney is the early front-runner in Florida’s Republican presidential primary, and he was the only Republican challenger who led President Barack Obama in a general election match-up there (43 percent to 42 percent), according to a Suffolk University/7NEWS (WSVN-Miami) poll of registered voters in Florida.

Obama is the most divise president we have ever had. I do not believe class warfare is the way to go.. He spends more time fighting with traditional Americans, when he needs to know that our true enemy is overseas.. I hope the liberal Elite journalists will begin to pick up on this.. Americans need a leader, lets hope we can get one in 2012..

Sadly they won't.................our liberal Elite jounralists are in-bed with the Obama Administration and they have every intention of Re-installing him over the will of the American people in 2012...................

I'm afraid we maybe living in a new "Nazi America"............................ because the only unbias news outlet is C-Span...........

Yes, Obama, it is imperative that you reconnect with the sociopathic/psychopathic social liberals and paranoid schizophrenics for they are your army of functionally neurotic individuals. We're waiting and we're prepared for every violent and subversive act that you engage from now until the restoration of federalism and adherence to the Constitution of the United States. Reagan and Goldwater had a cakewalk.

More than two years into his presidency and still no one knows where he stands on anything.

* He was against the Bush tax cuts before he was for them before he was against them

* He's going to close Guantanamo, then he isn't

* Deifcits were a sign of a failure of leadership, then after he added trillions to the deficit, they weren't

* The deficit is a problem, then it isn't, then it is, then it isn't

* He's going to end the war in Iraq - but instead he started a THIRD war in the mideast

* He continually talks about the need to reduce the deficit, but he continually tries to spend more and more money

He has taken both sides of nearly any issue you can think of - depending on what happened to be the fashion at the time. But through it all he has maintained a certain consistency in the characteristics of his methods

- A vicious partisanship

- A lack of any governming principles or sense of ethics

- A failure to take a leadership role in anything

- A lack of interest in the country's problems. His main focus seems to be on vacations, parties, golf and shooting hoops.

Clearly this guy not only has no qualifications in being president, he seems he has no interest in it either.

More than two years into his presidency and still no one knows where he stands on anything.

* He was against the Bush tax cuts before he was for them before he was against them

* He's going to close Guantanamo, then he isn't

* Deifcits were a sign of a failure of leadership, then after he added trillions to the deficit, they weren't

* The deficit is a problem, then it isn't, then it is, then it isn't

* He's going to end the war in Iraq - but instead he started a THIRD war in the mideast

* He continually talks about the need to reduce the deficit, but he continually tries to spend more and more money

He has taken both sides of nearly any issue you can think of - depending on what happened to be the fashion at the time. But through it all he has maintained a certain consistency in the characteristics of his methods

- A vicious partisanship

- A lack of any governming principles or sense of ethics

- A failure to take a leadership role in anything

- A lack of interest in the country's problems. His main focus seems to be on vacations, parties, golf and shooting hoops.

Clearly this guy not only has no qualifications in being president, he seems he has no interest in it either.

I think part of the pre-vote test we put our presidential candidates of both parties through is seeing how well the candidate can hire and organize and raise money and effectively reach and connect with the voters. A national campaign operation is now a sprawling big business enterprise that tests the candidates' ability to create a well-coordinated specialized staff that is up on the latest technology, social media networks, most careful and efficient ways to use the money available, and creative ways to organize an on-the-ground army of political activists that branches out to reach as many American voters possible with the most effective vote-winning messages as possible. It's a mammoth undertaking and not necessarily a bad test for anyone seeking to head a much more awesome and intimidating operation as President of the United States. From my outsider view, I would say Romney seems the savviest so far of the Republican wannabes. His operation seems slick, rich and smart, but I wouldn't underestimate the foxy-sly Barbour's abilities and operation and deep pockets filled with IOUs from decades of favors done for fellow Republicans. Maybe that's what Sarah is doing while recently lying low; maybe she's trying to put together the winning team and organization. Whichever Republican wins the prize, he or she will face the daunting challenge of an Obama operation that has proven smart, effective, super rich, widespread and winning (and is two years smarter than last time).

If he were smart, the president would have a plan to put the U.S. government's fiscal accounts in order. What he has proposed and defended repeatedly in 2011, amounts to a defense of a catastrophic status quo. He really seems to believe that the market will permit the U.S. to have trillion-dollar deficits every year for a decade out, with no end in sight. There is near unanimity among students of the subject that entitlements reform is essential to getting the federal government's fiscal accounts back under control. However, Mr. Obama insists that essentially staying with what is in place now is both what we need and what is tenable. He is wrong.

Mr. Obama would be better served by offering a U.S. government fiscal accounts "diet" that balances social needs with fostering a positive investment climate for private business. We need to have a more modest and humble federal government. We can't afford our current big entitlement programs, the way that they are now constructed. We can't afford new spending programs that he advocates, like high speed rail and attacking Libya. It would be better politics for Mr. Obama if he were far more fiscally cautious. Right now he is on track for becoming the most fiscally profligate president in U.S. history. In their own self interest, Democrats should be concerned that the average voter will not buy the current president's reckless economic policies much longer.

A tad ironic that an article focusing on Obama's job to "reconnect" includes a photo of the President at the podium with TWO teleprompters. This highlights how campaign 2012 will be based on a Rose Garden strategy.

Maybe he can devote a significant amount of time to an explanation to the young people of this country as to why he thinks that them paying an effective tax rate of 88 PERCENT on their income 20 years down the road in order to fund this ginormous POS called the federal government is such a great idea. And how it's such a good idea for them to be unemployed for the foreseeable future because of his destructive Marxist tax and spend method of governance. And what a great idea it is for their health care decisions when they're elderly to be subject to the whims of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, otherwise known as THE Death Panel.

DIVISive? Our true enemy is where Iraq? Afghanistan? Obama has been less divisive than any president. Continuing tax cuts, compromising on Health Care, You dick, this statement is a product of a divisive corporate controlled media of hate and conservatism. Please get off your high hog and complain about our president for a reason that affects you, not with the lies you are told to attack him with. This type of bull has been put up with for too long, and us moderates should come out and defend this centrist president. The republicans are divisive, the media has allowed them the aqbility to move so far to the right. When were taxxxes this low before, then show me a divisive pres. Obama is appeasing you you jerk.

Not divisive? Health care compromise? Moderate? Centrist?

How's the koolaid this morning, bitter?

So, let's ask do you help pull the wagon, pf are you along for the ride?